Sentences with phrase «converted into mechanical energy»

If even a very small fraction of the total energy stored in the latent heat of water vapor or from the heat of tropical ocean waters could be captured and converted into mechanical energy, we would be able to meet a large portion of our present and future energy needs.

The steam is converted into mechanical energy in a turbine, which powers a generator to produce electricity.

As the blades of a wind turbine turn, the kinetic energy of the wind is converted into mechanical energy, which is transmitted through a drive shaft to an electrical generator in the nacelle.

The team calculated that most of the sonic energy is converted into mechanical energy, which creates motion in the liquid surrounding the bubble.

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CATIE also installed a biodigestor, which converts the energy stored in the manure into electricity for mechanical milking.

As the glider darts through the air, it unwinds a long tether, creating mechanical energy that a generator on the ground converts into electricity.

In some cases, special atomic arrangements enable them to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy.

Any heat engine converts thermal energy (heat) into mechanical energy (motion).

The generator converts the mechanical energy generated by the blades into usable electrical power.

Most scientists who study the transport of materials within a cell have focused on the drivers of that transport — namely, molecular motors, a family of biological agents that actively convert a cell's energy into mechanical work to move cargo across a cell.

The new process, which the researchers have called «acoustowetting,» works on a chip made of lithium niobate — a piezoelectric material capable of converting electrical energy into mechanical pressure.

«We confirmed that if the mechanical energy is entirely converted into electrical energy, the energy generated by the daily motion of an arm can sufficiently cover the energy consumption of a smart watch and even the stand - by energy consumption of a smart phone.»

Harnessing vibrations from the air using piezoelectric transducers, which would convert that mechanical energy into electricity, seemed like a better idea.

As the pack bounces, it periodically runs a toothed rack across a gear attached to small generator on the fixed frame (see picture), thus converting the mechanical energy of walking into electrical energy.

Big animals have longer legs or flippers to get from point A to point B. And bigger bodies have higher metabolic rates and more fast - twitch muscle cells, needed to convert chemical energy into mechanical energy and rapidly accelerate.

Then, our metabolism converts these foods into ATP (adenosine triphosphate) for mechanical energy that moves the body.

The the amount of voltage produced by the Alternator is proportional to the engine RPM and the Alternator is at best 50 to 60 % efficient meaning it only converts 50 % of the mechanical energy into electrical energy.

Every time the driver uses the brakes, it converts that mechanical brake energy into electricity to recharge the car's battery.

The MGU - K converts mechanical and heat energy into electrical energy that can be stored for later deployment and the MGU - H takes heat from the exhaust and uses it to create electrical energy.

«The energy with this new system is harvested as before by braking and pedaling, just that it now also converts mechanical energy into electrical energy thanks to the Integrated Kinetic Energy Recovery System (energy with this new system is harvested as before by braking and pedaling, just that it now also converts mechanical energy into electrical energy thanks to the Integrated Kinetic Energy Recovery System (energy into electrical energy thanks to the Integrated Kinetic Energy Recovery System (energy thanks to the Integrated Kinetic Energy Recovery System (Energy Recovery System (KERS).

Wind turbines convert the kinetic energy in the wind (the energy the wind has due to its motion) into mechanical energy — the wind turns the blades of the wind turbine, and the blades turn a shaft inside the turbine.

An electric generator inside the wind turbine then converts this mechanical energy into electrical energy.

That sounds like a garbled and exagerated version of an already impressive reality: «A fully developed hurricane can release heat energy at a rate of 5 to 20x10 ^ 13 watts and converts less than 10 % of the heat into the mechanical energy of the wind.

The sun provides many thousands of times more energy than human industrialized civilization consumes and thermal energy can be converted into mechanical and electrical energy, meaning that any process currently being performed can be powered by solar thermal.

Guest essay by Jan Kjetil Andersen As Willis describes in his article on December 21, the atmosphere can be seen as a gigantic heat engine, i.e. a machine which convert thermal energy, namely temperature, into mechanical energy, namely wind.

Power generated by using a wind turbine to convert the mechanical power of the wind into electrical power — See also wind energy.

Energy generated by using a wind turbine to convert the mechanical energy of the wind into electrical energy — See also wind Energy generated by using a wind turbine to convert the mechanical energy of the wind into electrical energy — See also wind energy of the wind into electrical energy — See also wind energy — See also wind power.

The Pedalite principle is to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy from the movement of the pedal spindle.

Essentially, the device skips the step of generating electricity and converts the mechanical energy directly into chemical energy.

In both cases, an electric motor, which converts current into mechanical energy, briefly reverses its function to become a generator, converting mechanical energy into current.